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Fear has no brains; it is an idiot.

Ambrose Bierce

Conversation, n.: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener.
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Breathe Conversation Listening Vocal
Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Body Man Ocean World
Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
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Drive Slave Substitute
Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.
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Death Money Person Praise Wealth
Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.
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Best Gift God Man
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
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Leadership Philosophy Road
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
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Art Human Limitation Reason Thinking Understand
Prescription: A physician’s guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
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Harm Patient Prescription Situation
The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.
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Fall Hard Himself Man
PAIN, n. An uncomfortable frame of mind that may have a physical basis in something that is being done to the body, or may be purely mental, caused by the good fortune of another.
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Body Fortune Goodness Purity Uncomfortable
Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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Machine Technology Transformation
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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Arrangement Classification Ignorance Knowledge Small
MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Brain Fact Himself Mindset Mysterious Nature
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
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Delusion Experience Observation Reflection Save
You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Help Religion Stupidity
The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Book Distance

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